Top 15 Jamie Zawinski Quotes

But instead I'm stuck inside under fluorescent lights, pushing bits around inside a computer in ways that are only interesting to other nerds.

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.

There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.

These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are … something else entirely.

Nothing comes for free.

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Browser compatibility problems are nature's way of saying "stop trying to be so fuckin' clever".

I've noticed that when I get quoted in <code>.sig</code> files, it's never any of the actual clever things I say all the time. Usually it's something dumb.

C (it's not just a language, it's a grade)

Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school.

If you're using Windows, go fuck yourself.

I dug in a bit but then the smell of gasoline and burning flesh drove me away.